Organization Studies and Posthumanism

Towards a More-than-Human World
Herausgeber: de Vaujany, François-Xavier; Silva, Polyana; Gherardi, Silvia

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the possible contributions of posthumanist concepts and theories for management and organization studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781032617152
• ISBN-10: 1032617152
• Artikelnr.: 75670073

Autorenporträt

François-Xavier de Vaujany is full professor of Organization Studies at Université Paris Dauphine-PSL and researcher within DRM. His research deals with the political and societal dimensions of (new) ways of organizing work and their management. He is particularly interested in the time-space of contemporary digital organization of work. Post-phenomenologies and process philosophy are key perspectives of his research emphasizing the apocalyptic process of digital management and organization. Silvia Gherardi is senior professor of sociology of organization at the University of Trento (Italy), where she founded the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning, and Aesthetics (www.unitn.it/rucola). She is also professor II at the School of Business, Society and Engineering, M¿lardalens University (Sweden). She received the degree of "Doctor Honoris Causa" from Roskilde University (2005), East Finland University (2010) and St Andrews University (2014). Her research interests include feminist new materialism, entrepreneurship, epistemology of practice, and postqualitative methodologies in organization studies. Polyana Silva is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Sao Paulo, where she is conducting research on the enmeshed aspects of life in a digitalized and virtualized worlds. Her particular areas of interest include virtual worlds, virtual beings, and metaverse projects, which she approaches from a posthumanist perspective. She has been part of organizing committees of research-oriented events such as the Chaire France-Brésil USP, a Chaire devoted to "Digitality and Management: Presence, Time and Space"; and the Organizations, Artifacts & Practices (OAP) Workshop. She is a member of the research groups "Public Sector Accounting and Governance in Brazil (PSAG)" and Meta:lab - Metaverse Laboratory for Research and Innovation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Too-human? Inquiring in-between different disciplinary areas
in Managing and Organizing Part I: Contextualizing the debate in a
more-than-human world 1.1 We are the Missing People: On posthumanist
onto-epistemologies in Organization Studies 1.2 Entrepreneuring as
multispecies composting 1.3 From Legitimation to Alegitimation: Inviting
Posthuman and Prehuman Ontologies into Theories of Institutions 1.4
Posthumanism as a system of codifying events Part II: Posthumanism in the
world of management and organizing 2.1. Mapping the Posthumanist
Conversations in Organization Studies 2.2. How practice theory participates
to the critical posthumanist conversations 2.3 Posthumanism and
sociomaterial organising: The case of Superbergamo's aid practices during
the Covid19 pandemic 2.4 Between action and deliberation: Contributions of
a posthumanist practice theory approach 2.5 Deleuzoguattarian cartographies
of work and organizing in the human-robotic workplace Part III:
Posthumanism: History or becoming? 3.1 Monsters and myths: Transhuman
temporal narratives and mind/body problems 3.2 Lacan's challenge to
posthumanism: The ethical case for speaking subjects 3.3 Edith Stein's
Realms amid Posthumanism's Evolving Landscape: Conversations on the subject
of "Subjectivity" 3.4 From expertise to encounter: Repopulating the inquiry
for worldly healing General Conclusion: The Paradoxical Invitation of
Posthumanism to Organization Studies: Between Processuality and Criticality